BILL NUMBER: AB 159AMENDED BILL TEXT AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 14, 2011 INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Beall JANUARY 19, 2011 An act to amend Section 1506.3 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to community care facilities. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 159, as amended, Beall. Community care facilities: foster family agencies. The California Community Care Facilities Act requires any holder of a valid license issued by the State Department of Social Services to engage in any foster family functions to use only a certified family home, as defined, that has been certified by that agency or a licensed foster family home approved for this use by the licensing county. The act requires, until January 1, 2012, a foster family agency that provides treatment of children in foster families to employ one full-time social work supervisor for every 8 social workers or fraction thereof in the agency. This bill would extend the operation of that employment requirement until January 1,20132016 . Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 1506.3 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read: 1506.3. (a) A foster family agency that provides treatment of children in foster families shall employ one full-time social work supervisor for every eight social workers or fraction thereof in the agency. (b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,20132016 , and as of that date is repealed.